Yanco Associates serves the utility industry and promotes the development of
the Smart Grid. We complete both small projects and large complex projects using experienced, knowledgeable personnel for management
consulting, project management, management mentoring, IT project design and
support, T&D design and support, and various other assignments. We work as a
team with our clients to complete the required engagement on schedule and within
budget. Yanco Associates was founded in 1993, and has worked as a separate
entity or in consortia for utilities and energy companies in the United States
and abroad.

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide strategic, economic, business, and
technical consulting services that offer value, insight, and
expertise to our worldwide clients. We are a knowledge-based firm
with a reputation for delivering superior business solutions through
an integrated set of comprehensive services. We recognize the
strategic importance of improved customer service and lower
operational costs in today's competitive utility environment. As
utilities deploy various advanced technologies, we have responded by
developing a complete set of services to assist with the application and
integration of these information and automation technologies to support a
smarter grid.

Company Profile

Our clients include large and small municipals, cooperatives, investor-owned utilities,
engineering firms, research organizations, and software product suppliers. Our
core focus has been on the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of
utility assets and the systems that support the business processes. These
systems include Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Meter Data Management Systems, Work Management Systems (including Transmission WMS), Outage
Management Systems, Geographic Information Systems, Field Workforce
Automation/Mobile Dispatch Systems, SCADA/EMS, and Asset Management Systems. We
are comfortable with and knowledgeable in all of these systems.

Yanco Associates is organized as an open consulting practice, which is able to
draw on and field utility experienced consultants for the various projects we
undertake. Yanco Associates has established relations with a core group of
independent consultants that we have used on many assignments, according to the
nature of the work and the individual’s experience and skills. These additional
resources are brought on as contractors or contract employees as required based
on the nature and duration of the engagement. The two full-time, permanent
employees—the two principals—function as the project leads and “general
contractor” for an assignment.

The advantage of this approach for a utility is three-fold. The consultants we
use have the experience and skills required for the work and hit the ground
running—there is no need to train the recent college graduate as to the business
principals and requirements. Secondly, the consultants we bring to the job are
seasoned utility project veterans and understand the deliverables that a utility
needs to develop a plan and gain approval of the plan from upper management and
regulatory bodies; we provide such deliverables. And finally, this arrangement
allows us to offer a great deal of value for the price we charge as we do not
have to carry payroll that must be spread over jobs to cover the non-billable
periods.

Yanco Associates is jointly owned by its two principals,
Dick Yanco and Ron Jarvis, and operates out of two main offices.